
This Adaptive Roof Tile Can Cut Both Heating and Cooling Costs
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
UC Santa Barbara researchers Charlie Xiao, Elliot Hawkes, and Bolin Liao present an adaptive tile, which when deployed in arrays on roofs, can lower heating bills in winter and cooling bills in summer, without the need for electronics.

Among the Best and Brightest
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Yangying Zhu was one of twenty-four awardees from twenty academic institutions in 2024 recognized by the Young Investigator Program
Continue Reading2023 ME Grad Slam Winners
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Congratulations to our 2023 Grad Slam winners!
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2023 Distinguished Alumnus- Steven Shugart
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
2023 ME Distinguished Alumnus: Steven Shugart, in recognition of outstanding leadership and contributions to computer hardware, software, and networking solutions.
Continue ReadingAn NSF Early CAREER Award to Study DNA Dynamics and Gene Transcription
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
We often think of DNA as the classic double-helix structure we learned about in high school, consisting of two twisting chains made up of various sequences of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine.
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Congratulations Elliot Hawkes & Tyler Susko- NIH Recipients
Friday, September 29, 2023
Congratulations Elliot Hawkes and Tyler Susko for receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for their research on the characterization and clinical trial of a Variable Friction Shoe
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Congratulations Yangying Zhu- 2024 Young Investigator Award Recipient
Friday, September 29, 2023
Congratulations Professor Yangying Zhu on being selected for a 2024 Young Investigator Award. The title of her project is "Suppressing Flow Boiling Instabilities Using Surface Structures".
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